Concise Minutes - Equality and Social Justice Committee


Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 4 (Ty Hywel)

Meeting date: Monday, 1 December 2025

Meeting time: 13.00 - 15.01
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15456


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Attendance

Category

Names

Members of the Senedd:

Jenny Rathbone MS (Chair)

Mick Antoniw MS

Jane Dodds MS

Altaf Hussain MS

Julie Morgan MS

Sioned Williams MS

Witnesses:

Jane Hutt MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

Rae Cornish, Welsh Government

Juliette Selby, Welsh Government

Committee Staff:

Rhys Morgan (Clerk)

Angharad Roche (Deputy Clerk)

Francesca Howorth (Research)

 

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

The Chair welcomed Members, the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and her officials to the meeting.

 

No apologies, substitutions or declarations of interest were made.

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2       Post-legislative scrutiny of the Future Generations Act: session with Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice

Members heard evidence from:

Jane Hutt, MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

Rae Cornish, Deputy Director, Sustainable Futures, Welsh Government

Juliette Selby, Senior Sustainable Development Policy Manager, Welsh Government

 

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3       Papers to note

Members noted the papers.

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3.1   Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Chief Whip to the Future Generations Commissioner regarding the Future Generation Commissioners report: “Future Generations 2025”

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3.2   Welsh Government response to the Committee's report on Social Cohesion: "Co-operation over Conflict - Wales must Act"

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3.3   Snapshot of poverty in Autumn: a report from the Bevan Foundation

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4       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of today's meeting and for the Committee's meeting on 8 December 2025

Members agreed the motion.

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5       Post-legislative scrutiny of the Future Generations Act: session with Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice: consideration of evidence

Members considered the evidence.

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